So when can we see Blu-ray vs. DVD figures?

[Bathawk]

I know I know, Blu-ray vs. DVD would be like 95% to blu-rays 5% or something, but I would be interested ins eeing how those figures change over the the months, just like the percentages on HDDVD vs. blu went

Since Inception numbers would be ridiculous, but weekly and YTD wouldn't be so bad

[Favelle]

Originally Posted by Bathawk

So when can we see Blu-ray vs. DVD figures?

In about 2 years.........

[KYThrill]

Originally Posted by Bathawk

I know I know, Blu-ray vs. DVD would be like 95% to blu-rays 5% or something, but I would be interested ins eeing how those figures change over the the months, just like the percentages on HDDVD vs. blu went

Since Inception numbers would be ridiculous, but weekly and YTD wouldn't be so bad

95/5, now that is wishful thinking. Try 99.4/.6 on for size. It's a closer fit.

I think such data would be meaningless for at least another few years. Even if Blu-ray doubled its sales over the course of a year, they charts would change from 99.4/.6 to 99/1. It would just point out how niche HDM is and probably cause a slow down in consumer adoption as they would stop to wonder if it was worth the risk to buy into something that sales so little.

[Nomen Luni]

Where does the 99.4/0.6 figure come from?

[Crackbone]

Originally Posted by Nomen Luni

Where does the 99.4/0.6 figure come from?

His red colored imagination.

[Sparrow]

I believe by the end of the year HDM was about 5% of the market, though i dont have any numbers ot back that up, but im going to go look

[Quake1028]

Originally Posted by Sparrow

I believe by the end of the year HDM was about 5% of the market, though i dont have any numbers ot back that up, but im going to go look

So HD DVD had to be about 1.5% of that, so if that's true, it's 96.5:3.5.

[basano]

blu ray did about 170 mil in 2007
dvd did about 23 bil (from memory)

http://www.videobusiness.com/article/CA6518231.html 170 mil

dont have the link on this computer for the 23 bil
hd dvd did about 130 mil for 300 total for hd dvd and bd, but dont have that link on this comp either

[Nomen Luni]

Originally Posted by basano

blu ray did about 170 mil in 2007

However, the lion's share of that was in the final couple of months, and Blu-ray didn't even exist in Europe for most of Q1.

[Kosty]

Originally Posted by Quake1028

So HD DVD had to be about 1.5% of that, so if that's true, it's 96.5:3.5.

Thats revenues not volume IIRC.

With the BOGOs and promotions Blu-ray may have had a greater unit share.

With the end of the format war, more retailer support, higher PS3 sales and larger installed hardware base and strong fall promotions, and the early Toshiba white flag, sales for Blu-ray software should surge.

More retail display of Blu-ray software, just of the previously released titles should by itself surge sales starting in March.

I would not be surprised is VB or HMM some how starts showing DVD Blu-ray unit sales weekly if the trends start looking good for Blu-ray, or at least close to or ahead of the historical DVD adoption curve.

[Kosty]

Q: How far do you expect Blu-ray Disc will penetrate in 2008 after virtually becoming the standard format?

Kozuka: I'm expecting BD player sales to reach at least 4 to 5 million units in North America in 2008. US movie studios, on the other hand, seem to be intending to boost their sales of Blu-ray packaged media up to US$1 billion.

If they are sold at US$20 per title, the targeted sales represent more than 50 million titles. In comparison with roughly 7 million titles sold in 2007, US movie companies are estimating unit sales of seven to eight times as many.

Movie companies will target a shift from DVD to Blu-ray from now. They say, now that the formats are standardized, they will seriously promote the shift.

http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp/english...080225/147971/

$1 billion in Blu-ray sales , 7 or 8 times 2007 sales, would be news and would be news that the trade magazines would certainly highlight.

If its 10-20% of the DVD market , that would be a big storyline.

[Bathawk]

the fact that we're discussing it seems to warrant that the figures may be worth seeing, heck even if it's 99.99% to .01% I still want to watch as it clicks over to 99.98%/.02%

Yes I have no life

[C.S.Strowbridge]

Originally Posted by Bathawk

the fact that we're discussing it seems to warrant that the figures may be worth seeing, heck even if it's 99.99% to .01% I still want to watch as it clicks over to 99.98%/.02%

Yes I have no life

The numbers are just too low to accurately track at the moment. The site I work for is working on the situation and as soon as we have numbers that we think are accurate, we will present them for our readers. However, we don't want to be first at the expense of accuracy.

[Bathawk]

Ok according to today's news, one in ten copies of "No Country for Old Men" were Blu-ray and one in eight copis of Hitman were on Blu

NOW would it be ok to start seeing Blu-ray vs. dvd figures?

[dshlvrsn]

Originally Posted by Bathawk

Ok according to today's news, one in ten copies of "No Country for Old Men" were Blu-ray and one in eight copis of Hitman were on Blu

NOW would it be ok to start seeing Blu-ray vs. dvd figures?

In the short term I think title by title is the only good indicator. All those catalog titles and bargin bin discs throw an over all percentage out of wack.

One in eight is pretty good progress vs one in twenty five...